Networking documentation?

[Jim Byrnes]

I have been running Ubuntu 9.10 for about 10 days now and pretty much 
have things working well.  The only problem I have is networking.  Many 
times when I boot up Ubuntu other machines on my network cannot find 
Ubuntu.  The only solution I have found is to keep booting Ubuntu until 
the other machines can see it.

I was wondering if the documentation always gets updated to reflect what 
is in the new releases?  In trying to find a solution I looked in the 
Desktop User Guide (section 8.3.1.1). It described a Network Settings 
main window that had 4 tabbed sections, Connections - General - DNS & 
Hosts.  I've looked at everything in the menus related to networking I 
could find but don't see what is mentioned in the guide.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,  Jim